25 OCTOBER 1963, page 22

Only Playing

MR. JOSEPH KERMAN neatly summed up the But accompanying is all that Poulenc pretends to be doing. His music does have the play to give it substance. The result is thus a serious......

To Advantage Dressed

The Balcony. (Academy; 'X' certificate in Lon- don.) A FILM about illusion is almost a piece of self- portraiture, at least enough to involve all sorts. of aesthetic, if not......

Design By

Covent Garden has a number of advisory committees, the most recent being the Design Committee, formed last November under the chairmanship of Sir Colin Anderson. What the Design......